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From: "John G. Volan" <johnv@ac3i.dseg.ti.com>
Subject: Re: Module size (was Re: Software landmines)
Date: 1998/09/04
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John G. Volan wrote:
> 
> For short methods, here's an analogy you can use:  Does your stock
> broker make a lot of one-minute long-distance calls to New York
> throughout the day?  Would you rather he waited till the end of the day
> and made one very long call, just to get the 20-minute discount?  I
> don't think so.

Here's another:  You've got a house.  You've got 8 doors in your house.
Each door has only two hinges, and it's only hinged to one wall along
one edge.  Seems like a lot of waste, don't you think?  Why don't you
save some money by just having 2 doors?  And use 8 hinges on each.  And
really thoroughly hinge them -- make sure each one's hinged to both
walls, the ceiling and the floor!  Yeah, that'd be great!

:-)

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